St. Landry democrat., 1887-08-06
THE LATEST NEWS.

1883.
The New York elevated road, it is sal
has abandoned the idea of substituting ele
trlcal power for steam.
United States treasury agents are inves,
eating the methods of the New York Ell
grafton commissioners
Thomas Davis was killed by lightning
Princess Anne county, Va
The report of the referee in the celebrate
cutting case has been made in New Yorl
lhe referee finds that General William Gu
ung, as executor Of his father, Francis I
cutting, held or converted to his own us
81, s49,515, and that General Cutting ha
been guilty of fmisappropriaton. The Farm
ers' Loan and Trust Company is directed t
pay over to Lydia S. Cutting and to Williar,
Cutting, for the benefit of Brockhold Cut
ung's children, 81, $50, 1893.
Thomas Abbott, who recently went to St
LOUIS from Toronto with his young bride
mas disappeared, and is thought to have com
mltted suicide. About ten days ago his wifi;
dled leaving letter in which she said sh,
mad taken poison and asking him to follow
her. His family had been offended by tn,
marriage and they had been in financial dis
tress in St. Louis.
The East River Ferry Company has filed a
formal transfer in New York of all its prop,
erty, including real estate, ferry-houses, boats
and franchises, to the Metropolitan Ferry
Company, recently incorporated to assume
the duties of the old company, which now
goes out of existence. The expressed consid-
Grafton is 81, 2,75O,OOO.
United States Marshal Gross and his depu-
Ties, who are levying upon property of the
residents of Taylor county, KY, for refusal
to pay taxes on railroad bonds, have been
boycotted by the hotels of Campbellsville,
which refused to entertain him, and he and
his force are encamped in the open air.
Atthe inquest in connection with the late
railway disaster in St. Thomas. Ontario, wit
nesses swore that the engineer was under the
influence of liquor and unfit to control the
train; also that the conductor had beer
drinking, though not intoxicated.
The Memphis cannon-ball train on the
Iron Mountain railroad ran over cow near
PIEDMONT, Mo-, derailing the whole train and
killing the engineer, Alex. Hamilton. All
the passengers were badly shaken up, but
none were seriously injured.
The Alabama and Tennessee Coal Com
pany, Sheffield and Birmingham railroad
and the Alabama Improvement Company
nave united into one corporation, making
one of the largest companies ever organized
in the South.
August Schleicher aged twenty years, a |
drug clerk, of Hoboken, N. j., committed |
suicide by taking dose of prussic acid. |
He had been rejected by pretty brunette
named Minnie Pohl, with whom he was
deeply in love-
Ihe first special transcontinental train of |
ten cars from California has passed through
Chicago, five cars being dropped there
and the other five taken on to New York.
Inc freight on the ten carloads from
San Francisco to Chicago was $1,000.
The Minneapolis (Minn.) Chamber of
commerce has appointed a committee to
meet with other committees to extend an
invitation to President Cleveland to visit
Minneapolis on his proposed Northwestern
trip.
David Hoffman has been hanged at Ne
braska City, Neb., for wrecking Missouri
Pacific passenger train ON the night of the
18th of January last at Dunbar, small
station on the Missouri Pacific
Dr. E. g. Stevens, the oldest physician in
Biddeford, Me-, has been arrested. charged
with malpractice upon Miss Mary Hall, an
operative of the York mills, Saco. He is over
seventy years old.
The 300 striking employees of the Reading
Iron Works have agreed to go to work and
finish all orders on hand at the old wages,
the question of reduction to be decided here
after.
Considerable indignation has been aroused =
among the colored men in New Orleans by =
the official announcement that colored troops
are not to be permitted at the international
military encampment to be held at Chicago.
Mrs. Hattie Seymour an aged lady, living y
n Harrison township, Vinton county, O., L
was found murdered in her house. The
object of the murder was robbery. L
w. FL. Nichols, a prominent sheep man Of . :.
Green county. Tex, has been shot and killed a !.
~ an unknown assassin. !,
The Spanish government has decided to r
bolish the Cuban export duties on sugar a,
nolasses and spirits. f
Under an edict of the Car, the frontier
taClOn OH tlc WaESdW anu 1uOu railway. | =,
ghere Prussian goods have hitherto been E,
nloaded for transfer to Prussian lines, has :,
cen pulled down, and the rails, platforms .
nd sheds and the bridge over the Shervinta :,
ave been removed.
The corporation of Dublin conferred :.
lie freedom of the city on Mr.. William u
'Brien, editor of United ireland, and Mr.. ~
atrick A. Collins, of Boston, Mass, who is CO
ow visiting Ireland. oe
The ship Firth, of Dina, has been lost in a
yclone in Java waters. Her entire crew, in
umbering twenty-five perished. ). tn
Fifty designs for a monument to General bl
rant have been received by the Grant Mon an
ment Association. III
Hon. Simon Cameron and party arrived at Z, Z,
aeenstpwn from New York on the steam v, W
ip Britannia, and proceeded for Liverpool :, %
, the same vessel. VI
J. g. Brooks, general solicitor Of the Penn -
Ivania Companys lines west of Pittsburg, no
.s returned to Pittsburg from Washington. ~
e is confident the company will yet win fo,
e fight over the Vandalia deal.